All these little 5-12 year old kids solving the cube in under 20 seconds makes me feel discouraged.

[Arcanist]

I’ve seen so many ppl get sub 30 in a month. It took me 5 years! It took me 1 hour to learn intuitive F2L. I don’t know why everyone is so much faster, it makes me feel awful about myself. Sorry

1 hour to learn intuitive f2l is quite fast. It took me around 3.

 

[EmmaTheCapicorn]

How often do you practice, and for how long?

I'm only asking because it took me several years to get to 30 seconds, and even longer to get to sub-20, with friends of mine being able to reach almost my level within 3 months. Then I realized that I didn't cube as often as I thought I did, and made a habit of regularly practicing. My times didn't improve instantly, but I was able to shave a few seconds off my average within a few months.

Daily for about 3-10 hours depending on what time I have. I’m just slow at learning new things, but I never thought I was THAT slow.

 

[JDAW6]

I’ve seen so many ppl get sub 30 in a month. It took me 5 years! It took me 1 hour to learn intuitive F2L. I don’t know why everyone is so much faster, it makes me feel awful about myself. Sorry

Don’t feel awful you’ll reach there, no reason to be sad.

 

[EmmaTheCapicorn]

1 hour to learn intuitive f2l is quite fast. It took me around 3.

Yeah that was after a month of trying, then it came easy after me just being stupid

 

[EmmaTheCapicorn]

Don’t feel awful you’ll reach there, no reason to be sad.

Yeah maybe by the time I’m 20 I think.

 

[Arcanist]

It might be the way you practice. There are other ways than only doing solves.

 

[EmmaTheCapicorn]

It might be the way you practice. There are other ways than only doing solves.

I practice PLLs to get them memorized and practice recognition and execution.

 

[JDAW6]

@EmmaTheCapicorn if you feel Like you are never going to reach you just won’t, but if you believe you can reach there and then work and work and work you will always reach there. You need to believe !

 

[Garf]

I think I remember you saying you were color-blind, right? Not saying it's the total reason why it took you so long to get to the 30-second range, but maybe you should try investing in cubes that are stickered based on your color blindness and see how it goes. Or buying custom stickers, spraypainting whatever stickerless cube black, then applying the stickers. That way, you are still using the cube you love, only it helps you see the colors better. An example is that my friend, Dravon, is color blind and has a GTS2M with a custom color scheme that has a dimmer orange, purple instead of blue, and some other colors I forgot.

 

[JDAW6]

BTW, I don’t know where I am getting these inspiring qoutes from it just comes to me,

 

[Areli Gómez]

I'm literally on my road to sub 15 and im 12 ;-;

That’s good! But you do realize the reason she posted this is because she feels discouraged by people like you, almost like jealous. Just know that what you could say she does read and it could be just rubbing it in

 

[SpeakCuba]

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That’s true. But I started at 11 years old. I have people starting at my current age (16) and getting sub 40 in a month. It took me 4 years to get to sub 40.

As others said, don’t compare to others, everyone improves at their own rate. I only started cubing in really late August of 2022. Now, again, as other said, it also depends on how much you practice, and how you practice. Personally, I’ve put in tons and tons of practice, and one of my main goals in the future is to be the best in my country. So really, summarized, don’t compare yourself to others, and, if you’re willing to be, say, sub 20, then, with time & practice, I promise you that you will get there.

 

[SpeakCuba]

I practice PLLs to get them memorized and practice recognition and execution.

You could film your solves, or find out what your weaknesses are. For example, I used to be terrible at cross, and still kind of am. I’m much better at cross now, but still need to work on it. But, I’ve done deliberate/targeted practice to improve my cross. So really, if you’re, let’s say, bad at rotations, learn edge orientation, and if you’re bad at PLL recognition, like me, then learn how to recognize them from looking at just 2 sides, etc. All in all, make sure you practice the best way you can. I wish you all the best

 

[OldSwiss]

Do you watch walktrough solves of other cubers? Especially for cross and F2L cases that could help a lot.
Maybe more than just grinding solves.

Sometimes you see very easy tricks where you think : How is it possible that I didn't find this out by myself

 

[SpeakCuba]

For some it's easier and for some it's harder. It seems that for you it is much harder than for most others.

With my 46 Years I know that I will never be able to get sub 10, maybe not even sub 20 average but cubing is about having fun and beating his own goals not the others.

But maybe you can work on your weaknesses. You could learn the algs you already know, so you can also learn some more.
The more algs you learn the easier it gets.


You mentionied N-Perm. Maybe you should try this one:

Na-Perm
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It's probably not the fastest but very easy to remember.

Same on the left side
Nb-Perm
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Just turn down the block of two, push the D-Layer (both directions work if one fits you better), turn the block back up, do a U2 and repeat the whole process 5 times.

Maybe the pictures or the description could also help you to learn the algs.
They are from this page, but it is in german

CFOP Speedcubing-Tutorial: PLL, Übersicht über alle Perms

CFOP-Methode: [Einführung und Cross] [F2L] [OLL] [PLL-Einführung] [PLL, alle Perms] In diesem Artikel: [Grupppe 1: A-Perms, E-Perm] [Gruppe 2: U-Perms, H-Perm, Z-Perm] [Gruppe 3: T-Perm, J-Perm und…

freshcuber.wordpress.com

If it helps you, I could translate some of the other pages to you or send you some more pictures.
I likes this page very much when I was learning the Perms. The Pictures also helped me.
But in the meantime after I learned all those PLL cases, I learn much faster and don't need the pictures anymore

For the Na perm, just use what most people use. It’s basically R, U, R’ at the beginning, Jb perm, and then undo the first 3 moves.

 

[SpeakCuba]

what should be the next event I should go to after 3x3 I am feeling like pyra but it seems weird.

2x2.

 

[JDAW6]

2x2 seems a little bit too easy and then you have you one look the solve but pyra just feels cool I would go for 4x4 but it just seems to big or maybe squan but squan is gooffy

 

[Running for cube]

I’m just trying to do a rough estimate probably nowhere near it

Yeah bc I’m like almost sub 15 and prob only done 7.5 k

 

[SpeakCuba]

2x2 seems a little bit too easy and then you have you one look the solve but pyra just feels cool I would go for 4x4 but it just seems to big or maybe squan but squan is gooffy

One look is much harder than it seems… at least to learn. Squan is very fun, but I would go with 2x2.

 

[SpeakCuba]

Yeah bc I’m like almost sub 15 and prob only done 7.5 k

Nice.